benjii

Do you get an extra sub for ET?

Every time we get in a good position, someone fucks it up. So frustrating!

That was never a foul by Downes.

Fellows is never going to score for us.

That was a cross to Larin which everyone went under. But for every decent cross, he Benalis one.

His crossing is so shit though.

Yeah, fucking idiots. Chris Coleman, "it's only just rolling". Div. In any case, their guy was in the area when it was taken, so presumably can't play the ball regardless. It's really not a controversy.

Ah, Leo!

Jander having a mare again so far.

He was clearly offside.

Clear red. Was surprised the ref showed the yellow initially.

I'll take requests.

This is so fun!

Apartheid Elon's crazy AI is off the leash again. If you ask it to savage someone....

Dunno, but in the meantime.... I asked it to do one of Zia Yusuf but it was extremely racist!

At the moment, you can ask Grok to do a no holds barred roast of someone and it just goes to town.

Anyone else come across these guys?

If the Houthis manage to disrupt Red Sea access, everything will get expensive and, in some cases, scarce.

It will be, unless there is a full scale civil war / ground battle, or unless they can find someone senior enough in the IRGC, who can take it and the military with him as an organisation, who is willing to run a coup and cooperate with America. Fat chance.

Countries directly involved through participation or receipt of attacks: 1 USA 2 Israel 3 Iran 4 Bahrain 5 Kuwait 6 Oman 7 Qatar 8 Saudi Arabia 9 UAE 10 Iraq 11 Lebanon 12 Azerbaijan 13 Jordan 14 Cyprus Yemen likely to he directly involved very soon. Then you have defensive support: UK France etc. You have Pakistan at war with Afghanistan. Turkey probably quite twitchy. Egypt likely to intervene if Suez Canal gets cut off. Potential flare ups in Horn of Africa. It is somewhat "messy".

UAE is using expensive missile defences to shoot down cheapo drones. So far, it has been very succesful with hardly any direct hits achieved by Iran, despite UK media hysterics. Economically it's not sustainable, though, and they don't have an infinite supply. This is why they want Ukraine to come and show them how to make cheap interceptor drones and why the US also wants this help. Yes, this is the strategy. It's not going to work though. Remember the Venezuela episode? It's almost as if the US wanted a ready supply of oil before launching this attack.... it's the same campaign. Venezuela was about Iran. What this will do, is not fuck the US (no more than Trump already fucks the US economy), but fuck the UK and Europe, if access to the Red Sea becomes impossible. That means supplies from Asia need to sail round Africa instead of going via Suez, increasing costs and delays. We can start bulk buying bog roll again in anticipation. It will also fuck Japan and South Korea and other Asian economies needing sea route access to gas and oil. China is probably not as exposed, although they won't want this to carry on for too long. The reality is that Iran has no cards to play and can't really create an escalation severe enough to deter US and Israel. So this will probably carry on until someone grants a Trump family member the right to make some (more) profit out of Iran.

I reckon 25 more points will get us 5th place, so we can afford to drop 8 points. Let's assume we lose against Coventry and Ipswich for the sake of argument, and draw with Wrexham. Means we need wins from: WBA away Norwich home Oxford home Derby home Swansea home Bristol home Blackburn home Preston away

Yes, in future history books, his invasion of Ukraine will go down as one of the most awesomely stupid moves anyone ever made, anywhere.